[BVR421]

Good Job Shurkey. I hope you drive and enjoy soon!

[Schurkey]

Ran out of "edit" time on my previous post...

Somender-Singh grooves on the quench pad. Both grooves aimed at the spark plug. There is considerable debate on whether or not this does anything useful. Nobody seems to think it's harmful, though. I have done this to this one engine; and it's not in the car so I have nothing worthwhile to add to the debate except to say that "someday" I'll have some experiences to share. The goal is 87 octane/smooth idle (very mild cam) while running 9.2:1 compression--and as much power as we can conveniently get.



Evidence of pushrod clearance issues at the bottom of the pushrod holes. This is AFTER I've already ground them out some.

Originally Posted by BVR421

Good Job Shurkey. I hope you drive and enjoy soon!

Thank you. Appreciated. In fact, this engine will get the pan pulled (got an eBay windage tray to install, and didn't have it when the bottom end went together...) and then it'll be buttoned-up and parked in my garage until spring. Won't get installed in F-I-L's Firebird until April/May sometime.

Any job worth doing is worth doing four or five times (until I get it right.)

[Silver Judge]

Hey Schurkey...
Great photos of your pushrods, I appreciate seeing this level of detail on the cooling mod hole locations. I have wondered about those Somender Singh grooves too, some say they are great, others don't !~

Will you fire the motor again soon?

[Schurkey]

Originally Posted by Silver Judge

Will you fire the motor again soon?

So far, 17 minutes run time. I'll finish the "30-minute" cam break-in tomorrow; and then do some carb-swapping and such. Probably about an hour's worth of running. Dump the oil, install the windage tray, button it up...and put a big bag over the works until spring.

That's the plan. You already know how my plans go...